Getting around the app
Which screen you reach from where. A map of the home screen, Profile, Settings and the Learn section.
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There are four main stops in the app: the home screen, choosing a technique, Learn and Profile. Settings live inside Profile.
The home screen
The Start button sits in the middle of the screen. The single line above it changes each time you come back to the home screen: sometimes a short pointer, sometimes news of new features after an update, sometimes a reminder of which interface level you are on. Above that is a small Achievements tag showing how many achievements you have earned.
Below the button are two tiles. Streak shows how many days you have kept going; tap it and the streak screen with the calendar opens. Session history lists all your sessions. The Why it works row below them opens Learn.
The icon in the top right corner opens Profile.
In the Simple interface the home screen is pared down: the Achievements tag, the two tiles and the Why it works row are not shown.
While Appearance is set to Dynamic (the default), the background changes with the time of day and the season: light during the day, warm orange towards evening, dark and starry at night.
Start → choosing a technique
The technique list and the length slider. You pick a card and set the length, and the button at the bottom starts a session with the technique and length you chose.
If it is your first time with the technique, the tutorial comes in between.
Learn
The Why it works cards: why slow breathing and the techniques work, each with a Source link to the study behind it. The last card covers the Limits of slow breathing. We pick the sources by three levels of confidence.
Below them are the Safety and About sections.
Profile
At the top are three boxes: total sessions, streak and average score. Below them, a kind of control panel:
- Your personal summary — the long view
- Weekly summaries — what happened, week by week
- Programs — your running program, the catalogue and the history
- Streak — the calendar and milestones
- Session history — every session
- Achievements — earned and remaining
- About you — your intake answers
- Settings
- Delete my data — at the very bottom, for deleting all your data
If you have a program running, the Programs row says which day you are on.
Settings
Session: breath detection (the microphone), session rhythm haptics, tap haptics, breathing and countdown sounds, the Coherent Breathing pace.
Quick start: when it's on, Start skips the picker and begins a session with the technique and length suggested for you. If you still want to choose the technique, press and hold Start. If your watch is paired, there is a separate switch for Apple Watch too.
Tutorials: the hands-on round in tutorials, showing tutorials again.
About you: goal, second goal, experience, default length, usual time, age, health notes. All of them can be changed here.
Notification options: daily reminder, streak alert, technique-specific notifications, quiet hours, the daily cap, notification texts.
Your widgets: how to add a widget.
Appearance: the interface level, the theme (system, light, dark or dynamic) and the language.
Apple Health: the switch that writes sessions that count to Health as mindful minutes, and managing permissions in Health.
Privacy: the anonymous sharing switches.
At the bottom are the version and a link to this user guide.
Screens that look locked
Programs, the weekly summaries and the personal summary open after a certain point. While locked, the row still appears and tapping it tells you what is needed.
When Programs or the personal summary unlocks, a short notice announcing it appears once.